• If Lord had been given to large interpretations, he might have seen in the one ship a symbol of the urgent force of human striving and, in the other, the immovable resistance of sheer stupidity.

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  • His has been a triumph of ambition over intractable matter, a fulfilment of Mahler's faith in Arthur Schopenhauer's idea that the human will can overcome any force on earth.

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  • Lord Hoffmann's blunder has cast a harsh light on Britain's highest court, and raised serious doubts about whether the Law Lords will be ready to deal with the wave of controversial cases expected after the Human Rights Act comes into force, probably next year.

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  • The Acpo audit was sparked following a series of inspections by the Human Tissue Authority in 2009, asking for details of category three human tissue - significant body parts including organs and limbs - held by police before the Human Tissue Act came into force in 2006.

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  • Following the verdict, Tayside Police said anyone involved in human trafficking should be aware that the force would continue to do all within their powers to curtail people trafficking.

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  • "It doesn't matter how sour the internship is going, you want to have the company, your boss especially, primed to tell your next employer that you worked hard, " agrees Rusty Rueff, a former human resources executive and author of Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business.

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  • In many ways, fear is the force that stands between human beings and their dreams.

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  • The fastest human sprinters already exert a force of about four times their weight.

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  • In addition, the U.S. Preventive Care Task Force, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, says there's not enough evidence to recommend for or against prostate cancer screening men younger than 75 and recommends against prostate screenings for men 75 or older.

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  • So I believe deeply that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history.

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  • He believed then what we know is true today, that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history.

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  • When aliens attack the earth with the aim to annihilate the human race, Whitmore has to rally the troops to fight off the invading force.

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  • For example, it thinks well of the Labour government's 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which stiffens sentences for racially motivated crimes, and of the Human Rights Act, which comes into force in October and is designed to entrench individual freedoms.

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  • Collins, the force behind the mapping of the human genome and now the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, accused the firm of hijacking drug research with flimsy patents covering huge strips of so-called junk DNA, biological bits once thought insignificant but now central to the work of disease hunters.

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  • Certainly, the LRA and FDLR are incorrigible militias responsible for some of the worst human rights atrocities of the last half century, and the responsible use of international military force is a required part of their neutralization.

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  • Her career in the United Nations includes assignments in financial and human resource management of the United Nations Volunteers Programme, the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia and the United Nations Development Programme.

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  • Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right of appeal against being on the register was incompatible with their human rights and the law was changed so sex offenders could ask their local police force to remove them from the register 15 years after they are released from prison.

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  • The bulk of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 will come into force on 1 October.

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  • Issues surrounding who should have day-to-day control of human resources and finance functions in the new single force have yet to be fully settled.

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  • Rusty Rueff, author of Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business and former head of human resources at PepsiCo and Electronic Arts, agrees.

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